Heavy Snow — San Bernardino County Mountains, California

2025-01-26 to 2025-01-27 · San Bernardino County Mountains, California

Event narrative

Heavy snowfall with up to 16 inches at Snow Valley and Green Valley lake along SR 18.

Wider weather episode

The dry weather pattern with 7 Santa Ana wind events in January finally broke and gave way to a cold Pacific storm in late January. This produced widespread precipitation and heavy snowfall in the mountains. There was 6 to 16 inches of new snow in the San Bernardino mountains above 5000 feet. 3 to 6 inches of snow occurred in the San Jacinto mountains January 26-27 and up to 10 inches in Palomar mountain.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1232601. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.